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Format: Inbunden (Hardback)
Språk: Engelska
Antal sidor: 370
Utgivningsdatum: 2011-09-19
Utmärkelser: Nominated for Joseph Levenson Book Prize 2013
Förlag: Harvard University, Asia Center
Illustrationer: 2 maps, 24 tables
Dimensioner: 229 x 157 x 28 mm
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ISBN: 9780674062443

A Northern Alternative

Name: A Northern Alternative
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Author: Khee Heong Koh
ISBN: 9780674062443

Xue Xuan (13891464) and the Hedong School

av Khee Heong Koh

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011-09-19

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Conventional portraits of Neo-Confucianism in China are built on studies of scholars active in the south, yet Xue Xuan (13891464), the first Ming Neo-Confucian to be enshrined in the Temple to Confucius, was a northerner. Why has Xue been so overlooked in the history of Neo-Confucianism? In this first systematic study in English of the highly influential thinker, author Khee Heong Koh seeks to redress Xues marginalization while showing how a study interested mainly in ideas can integrate social and intellectual history to offer a broader picture of history. Significant in its attention to Xue as well as its approach, the book situates the ideas of Xue and his Hedong School in comparative perspective. Koh first provides in-depth analysis of Xues philosophy, as well as his ideas on kinship organizations, educational institutions, and intellectual networks, and then places them in the context of Xues life and the actual practices of his descendants and students. Through this new approach to intellectual history, Koh demonstrates the complexity of the Neo-Confucian tradition and gives voice to a group of northern scholars who identified themselves as Neo-Confucians but had a vision that was distinctly different from their southern counterparts.

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